Kelvin Cardinal Jr. took off into the woods near the area of Highway 897 and Township Road 583.

He hasn’t been seen since. His family continues to look for him and are asking for volunteers to help with the ground search, which starts every morning at 10 a.m.

The staging area site is north of Fishing Lake turnoff and Highway 987 on the Frog Lake Road heading towards Lloydminster.

Cold Lake RCMP helped in the initial search. Special Services Tactical Team and a police helicopter from Edmonton were brought in to help, and an RCMP drone was out doing surveillance of the area where Cardinal went missing.

The police called off their search on Nov. 17, but Cardinal, a father of four young children, remains on their missing persons list.

“If any new evidence is found, we will get back out there,” said Sgt. Ryan Howrish of the Cold Lake RCMP.

The family, however, continues to search.

“It was a search and rescue but now it’s just a recovery. . . I wish this was just a bad dream,” James Cardinal, the missing man’s brother wrote on a Facebook post that was meant to recruit more search party volunteers. “(We) won’t give up until he is found.”

Cardinal, 26, disappeared into the woods in the late afternoon of Nov. 13 after a police chase involving two stolen vehicles.

The vehicle Cardinal Jr. was in got stuck in the ditch after it tried to drive around a spike belt deployed by RCMP.

While police were busy arresting other passengers in the vehicle, Cardinal slipped away into the woods unnoticed.

In footage recorded by a police car’s dashboard camera, Cardinal, who is from Elizabeth Metis Settlement, is seen exiting the car and fleeing into the forest.

Cardinal is believed to have been wearing a long sleeve shirt or a light jacket, sweat pants and sneakers.

Cardinal is an Aboriginal male who is 5’8 and 150 lbs with black hair and brown eyes.

Landry said people with more information about his disappearance are encouraged to call the RCMP or Crime Stoppers.

The second stolen vehicle was also later stopped by RCMP after it too got stuck in the ditch trying to evade a spike belt.

Youth receives 40 days in jail for involvement in incident

Two other individuals were arrested on Nov. 17 on the day Cardinal disappeared after the two stolen vehicles were stopped—21-year-old Austin Crevier, who was allegedly in possession of methamphetamine at the time of the arrest and an unnamed 17-year-old male, who was allegedly found to have cocaine on his person.

Due to his age, the 17-year-old cannot be named because of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Police seized a loaded rifle from the front passenger seat of one of the vehicle’s.

“It would have been in reach from the driver,” said Landry.

The 17-year-old has since pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 40 days in jail. He also received a one-year driving ban and a two-year weapons ban.

Police find woman involved in car chase

Police were looking for a 23-year-old female who was involved in the pursuit of the two stolen vehicles.

She was dropped off when police lost visual of the vehicle she was in.

“We have since found her,” said Howrish, adding she has charged with a number of offences for incidents that occurred in both Elk Point and Cold Lake.